Fishing is a popular pastime. Why go fishing? Fishing is a wonderful sport. It is an inexpensive way to enjoy the great outdoors, it can be relaxing or stimulating and exciting. You can catch dinner or just experience the thrill of the catch and let them go. You can fish alone, or with family and friends.
Buzzbait fishing lures is similar to spinnerbait except that it has propeller type device on the upper arm instead of a spinner blade which rotates very quickly when retrieved. Buzz Baits tend to create more attention then most spinners and spoons. Work best when anglers retrieved it fast enough for the propeller to actually break the surface of the water. They tend to create enough "Buzz" that simply makes the lure irresistible for many fish. Their main purpose is to create attention and then tease enough that fish cannot help, but to take the bait. These preferred top water lures allow the angler to cover water faster than most top water lures.
Spinnerbait is a wire with a loop in its middle and the arms bent into V-shaped. At the end of top arm is a spinner blade same as what we found on spinners. At the end of the bottom arm is a hook, usually with a lead head for weight and adorned with a skirt for fish attracting device. The hook point rides up which resist snagging in weeds better than any other lures. The popular technique is to retrieve the spinnerbait so that it rides just under the surface, creating a bulge in the surface tension. The combination of noise and flash created by spinner blade and the color and motion of the skirt on the bottom arm resembles the large baitfish which provokes predator fish into striking.
Spinners and Spoon can also be categorized under top water lures. They both imitate baitfish (for the most part) and quite effective as other fishing lures.
Spinners Lures
When spinners is retrieved, the blade spins around the body of the spinner at a very fast rate emitting a great amount of vibration and flash mush like a baitfish in distress. Different shapes and thickness of the blades determine the rate of speed of the blade and how far away from the shaft it spins. Basically there are two types preferable for moving water and still water use. Spinners are best to use and excel in a stream. Spinners start spinning as soon as they hit the water because of the current. Angler can stand in one spot and fish the spinner throughout the water column downstream or upstream; pausing the retrieve in the area that may hold a fish may ensure a good strike. Reel just quickly enough to spin the blade while steering the spinner with your rod tip.
Colonel and MapAglia Spinners
Spoon Lures
Are thin, rounded piece of metal. Spoons are also called wobblers for their side to side movement in the water when retrieved. The spoon design reflects a lot of light and flashes brightly in the water when retrieved imitating a fleeing or distressed baitfish. Spoons cast easily and accurately because of their density. They cut right through any wind present and can travel a good distance through the air. This weight allows spoon to sink to the bottom quickly although they can be fished at any depth.
Minnow imitation fishing lures are more than likely the type of fishing lure that the entire world is the most familiar with. These are the fishing lures that look like bait fish and come in all of the sizes and colors that actual baitfish are available in. These types of fishing lures are also available in various colors and artistic design (luminous, glow in the dark, striking or neutral colors and etc). There are minnow imitation fishing lures that dive a few feet deep to as many as thirty feet deep. Generally each design of minnow may not suit for any type of fish.
You can cover the entire water table with minnow imitations. The most popular of these types of fishing lures has to be Rapala’s. The effectiveness of minnow imitation fishing lures must be lifelike and realistic either in design itself or during diving and retrieve. Expensive fishing lures will not guarantee to be the best fishing lures.
Minnow imitation fishing lures also called floater diver plugs which float at rest but dives beneath the surface when retrieved. The main characteristic of this type of fishing lures are the feature lip either made by metal or plastic (although some don’t have lip). The lip looks like a scoop-shaped device located in front of the lure. Lip allows the lure to dive and impart action making it vibrate, wiggle or gyrate when retrieved.
Minnow imitation fishing lures descend to various depths depending on the model. The size of the lip determines how deep the lure will dive; the longer the lip, deeper it will go.
Shallow Diver Minnow
The lure that dives between 0.5m up to 2.7m but sometime some of the design can dive to more than 3 m and still called shallow diver. Float at rest, and dive depending on the retrieve speed.
Shallow Diver Minnow
Deep Diver Minnow
Dive relatively deep, more than 3 meters and float at rest although some didn’t float at all. Most lure of this type have large lip that allow them to dive deep although some don’t have lip but built with internal sinkers. Crankbait is one of them.
Fishing lures that are fished or implies on the surface or top of the water. Usually floating, that may be moved about the surface of water creating attraction and cause fish to strike the lure. Non-floating versions may be retrieved at sufficient speed to cause them to travel at the water's surface. Such lures are often designed to resemble smaller creatures that would normally be considered as food for the target fish species.
The more effective lures have an action that closely resembles that of the actual living creature and also imitate wounded bait fish, frogs or even small mammals. There are also jointed bodies, moving eyes, holographic finishes and internal rattles to generate sound which are incorporated to encourage the target species to strike the lure. They could be plugs, poppers or creature imitations like the Jitterbug
For those who want to experience the excitement of hard and fast strikes, it doesn't get any more thrilling than “top water” fishing. Besides the exciting visual flash of fish, you get intense surface strikes that send your heart racing. Some might even admit that top water fishing is a little addictive even when they miss! While you never know exactly when they're going to strike, you know they will soon, and aggressively. That's what makes top water fishing such a rush.
A great tip for fishing top water lures is to do it when the water is as calm as possible, the more the surface of the water is like glass, the better top water fishing lures will work.
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